Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Our guests for Episode 21 are Philippa Ballantine (gracious as always, returning to the show) and Tee Morris (coming back to fiction in force in a major way). Those of you who have heard other interviews with them will know what to expect - awesomeness! If you have not, then prepare to go all over the place in the best possible way.

Their book, "Phoenix Rising: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences" is THE book I'm most excited about for 2011! I say that, because I know that it is going to be a lot of fun. Between plenty of action, and banter written by master practitioners of the craft; the awesome WILL be brought! Steam Punk, strong characters, explosions, snark .... and that's just in the first chapter ...

I have my pre-order in and after you listen to Tee & Pip, you'll know why! :)

Episode 20 is the second half of my interview with Brand Gamblin. We start off with a "scoop" about Brand's next project! I sooooo need to get him back on to discuss steam punk (maybe along with another steam punk author or two?) and definitely when his next book comes out. Hint to other guys who do interviews similar to mine: Get Brand on your shows. Listeners, I think you are going to enjoy this episode :)

If you haven't listened to the first part of the interview, you can find it here.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Episode 19 is the first half of my interview with Brand Gamblin. Like an onion, "The Hidden Institute" has layers .... LAYERS O' AWESOME! Between the writing, the podcast audio production, and all the touches that Brand brings to to table; I love this book. And it has (wait for it) BEAR POLO!! We get as much into why the book is great as we can without the spoilers. Of course, Brand and I find other stuff to talk about ... but why are you still reading this ... please go listen to the episode now! (Did I mention "BEAR POLO!"?) :)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Episode 18 is the second half of my interview with J. Daniel Sawyer. I try to keep up with Dan for another hour. Perhaps not all that well, but I have fun trying :) If you haven't heard the first half of the interview, please check it out here . I'll probably have Dan back on the show but AFTER I've caught up on the list of awesome stuff that her recommends I watch/read/listen (you might want to also). Dan is always a great podcast guest and this interview is no exception :)

Episode 17 is the first half of my interview with J. Daniel Sawyer. If Dan doesn't know something about media creation, it probably isn't worth knowing. ... O.K. that may be an exaggeration, but probably not by as much as one might think. His original full cast audio novel "Down From Ten" left me guessing until the very end (in the good kind of way). If you don't know Dan, get going and listen to the interview. If you do know about him, you probably haven't read this far without listening to the interview first anyway :)

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Episode 16 is the second half of my interview with writer, novelist, podcaster, and really nice human being Arlene Radasky. She is the author of the historical fiction (with a little fantasy added in for good measure) novel "The Fox". "The Fox" was inspired by the archaeological find know as "Lindow Man" (Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man), so the book appeals to the science & history geek in me as well as its being a well done story. If you haven't listened to the first half, please go back and check it out. :)

Episode 15 is the first half of my interview with writer, novelist, podcaster, and really nice human being Arlene Radasky. She is the author of the historical fiction (with a little fantasy added in for good measure) novel "The Fox". "The Fox" was inspired by the archaeological find know as "Lindow Man" (Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man), so the book appeals to the science & history geek in me as well as its being a well done story. I hope you enjoy and don't forget to come back for part 2 :)